The cell's hardline leader, killed with her comrades when Murtry's strike team burned her house down around them.
Hours after Cate laid out her plan to murder Adolphus Murtry's team, Holden, and Amos in one coordinated strike, Murtry — who had bugged every building in First Landing — struck first. His security team surrounded the cell's house (Cate's own), demanded surrender, and when the settlers fired, cut them down and let the building burn with everyone inside. Murtry reports 'all of the terrorists were killed by the return fire,' the settlers' own explosives feeding the blaze.
Only Zadie's body is named among the dead on the steps; Cate, the rawboned old-OPA soldier who had turned grief for Coop into a doctrine of coordinated murder, dies inside the house she planned it in — out-plotted and annihilated by the very violence she claimed to understand.
A tall, rawboned woman with a wide jaw and a permanent frown line between her eyes, a faint healed scar on one cheek; last seen alive commanding the cell in her home.
The settler cell's leader; the hardline strategist whose planned massacre was pre-empted by Murtry's own, dying in the fire.